MISSION:
The Boulder Institute for Psychotherapy and Research builds bridges between the latest advances in the knowledge of human development and effective services that promote healthy lives and communities.
VISION:
BIPR envisions a future where its therapeutic model transforms communities through the early development of healthy minds and secure, resilient relationships.
VALUES:
BIPR values…
Diversity: We seek a vibrant community in which one’s differences are celebrated.
Equal Access: We believe that people of all ages, from all economic and cultural backgrounds should have equal access to mental health resources and services.
Collaboration: We believe in an environment that fosters collaboration among experts, practitioners and those in need of their services.
Empowerment: We seek to build one’s capacity for mental and emotional health and are committed to supporting everyone in reaching their full potential.
Brain science: We are committed to promoting validated, empirically based, state of the art knowledge.
Informed community: We are dedicated to building a community armed with the latest advances in mental health and human development.
Innovation: We are committed to pursuing innovative solutions that fill the gap between mental health services and education.
BIPR offers low fee, affordable mental health services to Boulder County children, adolescents, adults, families and couples through its effective, highly respected clinical program. BIPR uses a sliding fee scale based on a person’s ability to pay.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Save the Date! Upcoming Front Porch Lecture Series
Encountering the Implicit Self in Psychotherapy: Intersubjective and Neuropsychological Underpinnings to Knowing the Other
Dr. Efrat Ginot, Ph.D. – Friday, May 18, 2012, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Dr. Ginot is a gifted clinician whose elegant case examples beautifully demonstrate how principles of neuroscience can be used to produce change in psychotherapy. Her deep understanding of therapeutic enactments and her empathic responses to these entanglements have been an inspiration to all at BIPR who have read and studied her work. We feel very fortunate that Dr. Ginot has agreed to present at an upcoming Front Porch Lecture.In this lecture, Dr. Ginot will help us understand how to use our patients’ verbal and non-verbal interchanges to understand nonconscious emotional and relational patterns. She will demonstrate how ongoing nonconscious communication between patient and therapist and the resulting transference-countertransferece interactions, as well as enactments, facilitate direct experiential knowledge of patients’ implicit and dissociated self-states. Underpinned by recent exciting findings from neuroscience, these topics will be examined with the purpose of helping patients become aware of their difficulties, integrate dissociated schemas and as a result develop reflective tools for emotional regulation.
Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Videotaping Mother-Infant Interactions and Videotaping the Analyst’s Face
Dr. Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D. – Friday, August 3, 2012, 1:30pm – 5:30pm
Dr. Beebe will explore a view of face-to-face interactive processes that informs both mother-infant communication and adult treatment. Three bodies of information will be brought together. First, a dyadic systems view of face-to-face communication will set the stage for an understanding of nonverbal communication across the lifespan. This view construes the dyadic system to be the basic unit of interest. Second, this dyadic systems view will be illustrated through research on early mother-infant communication disturbances. And third, this dyadic system will be used to explore processes of nonverbal communication in adult treatment through a new project, “Videotaping the Analyst’s Face: Video Feedback Consultations for a Patient Who Does Not Look.”Watch for information on how to register in the coming days!
The Role of Dissociative Processes in the Attachment-Based Development of Self: Neuropsychological Dynamics for Therapeutic Change
Mary Sue Moore, Ph.D. –Friday, October 26th 8:00-4:30
Dr. Moore will present her understanding of the role of dissociative neurobiological processes—both normal and pathological—in attachment relationships, as an essential foundation for the development of a sense of self-in-relation. It is our expectation that in this third Front Porch Lecture for 2012, Dr. Moore will highlight essential links between Dr. Ginot’s and Dr. Beebe’s immensely important contributions to our current understanding of non-conscious neurobiological processes in clinical treatment, as well as bringing a focus on the evolutionary value in human development of the capacity to experience and nonconsciously encode varying self-states in relation to specific others. The “self” we experience ourselves to be is a product not only of relationships with our earliest attachment figures, but essential dyadic relationships we establish throughout life.
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